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Jetter Hose Repair 101
Sooner or later, contractors who rigorously inspect their jetter hoses will discover a nick or cut that requires a repair. While taking...
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Think It Can't Happen to You? How to Respond to a Trench Collapse.
Let’s assume your employer (a company or a utility) has an excellent safety program. You’ve been trained and designated as the competent...
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5 Ways Local Print Advertising Still Works
Advertising revenue for newspapers has been on the decline for years, while social media seems to have taken over the world. You’ve...
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Should You Mix Business and Politics?
The presidential election is coming up and we’ve been bombarded with advertisements either praising or lambasting the candidates for many months. As politics...
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Can Google Find Your Drain Cleaning Business?
Generating leads is how local plumbing and drain cleaning companies stay alive. But fewer leads are coming from word-of-mouth or traditional advertising...
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Becoming PACP Certified
Since first implemented in 2002, the Pipeline Assessment Certification Program has become the accepted method for municipalities, contractors, consultants and manufacturers to record...
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Backhoe Strikes, Kills Sewer Worker
Donald “Cary” Smith Jr., 56, died one day after he was struck by a backhoe while on a job in New Haven,...
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Hydrovac Operators Help Rescue Driver From Burning Vehicle
Talk about being in the right place at the right time.Two crew members from NorCal Pipeline Services helped rescue a trapped driver...
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Complementary Pipe Bursting Rigs Boost Contractor's Productivity
Being the largest pipe bursting contractor in North Texas brings with it a multitude of jobs for Dallas-based No-DigTec.To complete that work, the...
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Don’t Push the (GVWR) Limit
Are you overweight? Not personally, but what about your truck? Is your payload pushing the limit? Might your truck be exceeding its...
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Ohio Plumber Reunites Owners With Class Rings
Plumber Trent Dawson recovered a few class rings cleaning out sewer and drainlines over the last 20 years. If he couldn’t identify...
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Providing Safe Drinking Water in Nicaragua
When Justin Mizell was looking for a way for Specialized Plumbing Technologies employees to give back by volunteering on a project, he...
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Ruptured Lateral Puts Trenchless Specialists to the Test
Early last summer, Troy Ouverson — the owner of Ouverson Sewer and Water, a pipe lining and repair company in Minneapolis —...

















